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Pentagon, press secretary George Little said that an official review of the book, "No Easy Day," determined that it reveals what he called "sensitive and classified" information. He didn't go any further, but said the author was required to submit the book to the Pentagon before publication for a formal review of potential disclosures of such information. Meantime the Admiral who runs the Navy Seals command said details in the book provide the U.S.'s enemies with dangerous insight into special operations.

U.S. Northern Command is coordinating Department of Defense's support to FEMA and state and local response activities in response to Tropical Storm Isaac. Northcom has pre-staged four UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters from Fort Campbell, KY, and two SH-60 Seahawk helicopters from Norfolk Naval Air Station, VA, to Fort Rucker, AL, to assess and support potential search and rescue efforts. A SAR planner also has been activated and deployed to Baton Rouge Emergency Operations Center, LA.

The Department of Defense has announced the death today of a local female soldier who was supporting the war in Afghanistan. Army Staff Sgt. Jessica M. Wing, 42, of Alexandria, Va., died Monday Aug. 27, in Kuwait City, Kuwait in a non-combat related incident. She was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 126th Aviation Regiment, Bangor, Maine. No other details on the cause of death are available at this time.

The Marine Corps commandant says there may be some anxiety from male Marines as female officers work their way into infantry and other combat jobs that historically have been open only to men. The Associate Press reports Gen. James F. Amos told a National Press Club audience Tuesday that early steps have been successful, but some of the harder tests are yet to come. Two female Marine officers have volunteered to attend the grueling infantry officer school at the Marine Corps' Quantico, Va., base next month as military officials gauge whether women can handle the course's extreme physical and mental challenges.

There are reports from Pakistan that the U.S. government is seeking some kind of truce with the Haqqani network. But the U.S. military denies there's any truth to it. Pakistan's Express tribune reports a "Senior American military official says the US would hand over the control of three Afghan provinces to the Haqqanis if they agreed to withdraw their support for the Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan." This comes just days after the US allegedly killed Badruddin Haqanni in a drone strike. Brig. Gen. Stephen Twitty, a spokesman for United States Forces-Afghanistan said in a statement, "Assertions made in an article today in The Express Tribune that the United States is willing to cede Afghan territory as part of a rapprochement with the Haqqani network and that the U.S. sees the Haqqani Network playing an '...important role in the future political dispensation of Afghanistan,' are categorically false."

The Navy says a Virginia-based sailor has become the first black woman to earn a three-star-rank in the U.S. armed forces. Vice Adm. Michelle Janine Howard was promoted to deputy commander of U.S. Fleet Forces command in Norfolk on Friday. She's no stranger to making history. Howard was also the first black woman to command a U.S. Navy warship, the first female graduate of the Naval Academy to achieve the rank of rear admiral and the first black woman to command an expeditionary strike group at sea.

Fox News has identified the Navy Seal, who is the author of a book about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Matt Bissonnette retired from the Navy last summer, according to Fox's conversation with a former U.S. and current U.S. Navy official. The book is called "No Easy Day" and is scheduled to come out on September 11th. Bissonnette wrote the book under the pseudonym Mark Owen. The book is being published by the Penguin group. He could face legal trouble if it is determined that he revealed classified information.

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has recommended General Joseph Dunford to lead the war effort in Afghanistan once the outgoing commander of U.S. and NATO troops rotates out of the post. The final decision is President Barack Obama's and his nomination would need to be approved by Congress. Dunford, who served in the Iraq war, would replace General John Allen, who took over command of the Afghan mission in July 2011. Allen is expected to become the next head of U.S. forces in Europe sometime this winter.

Joint Chief's Chairman, General Martin Dempsey on his visit to Afghanistan met with his Afghan commanders and his counterpart. In addition to talking about insider attacks, they discussed the state of the war. He said the Taliban started the fighting season with three objectives: discrediting Afghanistan's central government, impeding the development of the national security forces, and recapturing lost territory. He said in his own words..."In every one of those objectives they've failed."

Hezbollah Political leader Hassan Nasrallah has sent a warning to Israel. He says they have precision rockets that could hit a small number of targets and kill "tens of thousands" of Israelis He said "Hitting these targets with a small number of rockets will turn ... the lives of hundreds of thousands of Zionists to real hell, and we can talk about tens of thousands of dead." This threat comes as Israel debates whether or not to attack Hezbollah's benefactor Iran.